oracle

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Yet she’s also a protein-loading weight-lifting buff who favors all-black outfits and clear opinions, not a robed oracle speaking in riddles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

Such questions call for an oracle, a big thinker, a visionary.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

It doesn’t take an oracle to see there just might be an opportunity in Oracle.

From Barron's • Dec. 5, 2025

Days later, the Dalai Lama fled the palace, a decision he said was based on divine orders from his personal oracle.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2025

They abandoned their carriage- house oracle and split the profits, even though the only one who had cared about the material side of things had been Nana.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende